Police are looking for the person responsible for a carjacking in Pittsburgh’s Spring Garden neighborhood that sent a woman to an area hospital Friday afternoon.
The carjacking happened at a check cashing store when a man put a gun to the woman’s side and forced his way into her vehicle, according to investigators. They then drove down Spring Garden Avenue.
Naomi Purnell witnessed the carjacking. She told Channel 11's Gordon Loesch that at one point the woman was pushed out of the driver's side of the vehicle and dragged.
“Then the car came to a stop and then (he) pushed her out all the way, and then kept going,” Purnell said. “She said that a guy basically carjacked her … that he pulled a gun on her and told her to get into the passenger side seat.”
Police said that the 35-year-old woman was taken to Allegheny General Hospital with cuts on her legs and hands.
"We just made sure that she was OK and helped her call some of her family while we waited for police," Purnell said.
The vehicle involved in the carjacking, a gold Dodge Durango, was found a short time later, investigators said. However, the man was gone.
A police K-9 was brought in to help search for the man, but attempts to locate him were unsuccessful.